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Awaken Online: Catharsis

By: Travis Bagwell
Narrated by: David Stifel
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Summary

Jason logs into Awaken Online fed-up with reality. He's in desperate need of an escape, and this game is his ticket to finally feeling the type of power and freedom that are so sorely lacking in his real life.

Awaken Online is a brand new virtual reality game that just hit the market, promising an unprecedented level of immersion. Yet Jason quickly finds himself pushed down a path he didn't expect. In this game, he isn't the hero. There are no damsels to save. There are no bad guys to vanquish.

In fact, he might just be the villain.

©2016 Travis Bagwell (P)2016 Travis Bagwell

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Loved it!

If you are a fan of Ready Player One, Super Powereds or the Off to be the Wizard series then you will love this. Great all round concept and story, the best audiobook I have listened to in a good while.

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Best played at X 1.05 speed as narrator is slow

Takes a while to get into but eventually all comes good. Best played at X 1.05 speed as narrator's speech is a bit on the slow side.

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Instant addiction

I found this soon after listening to Ready Player One. I became addicted to this book within the first chapter. The story is good, the reader did a very good job on the voices and the way the plot unfold and twists between the game and real life was fantastic. I have already bought the second one. I highly recommend the heck out of this audiobook​!

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Angry boys revenge fantasy

I will fully admit that I gave up 90 minutes in to this audiobook. I don't give up on books easily, but this really was not good at all.

As a gamer, I figured this would be up my street, but it's essentially an angry rich teenage boy's revenge fantasy, or at least the first 90 minutes are! The main character was unlikable and hackneyed, and unless the author put some killer twists in I think I can see how this all plans out without reading the book, not that I really care to Such a disappointment.

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David Stifel learn how to pronounce trébuchet

The story is slow to start but soon gains momentum…unlike the narrator.
David Stifel is a bit slow, but the most annoying thing was his inability to pronounce trébuchet correctly…the end ‘t’ is silent.

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so underwhelming.

I found this a real struggle to engage with as well as finish. The start of the story was leading towards a classic underdog story, which I happen to quite enjoy. For me however the author tried too hard to be different and create something edgy and different. I find myself disliking the main character and the direction of this series.
This is a series for me that I just can't get into and I will not be continuing.

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Good story bad voice actor

The story itself ways very interesting, one of the most riveting in the litRPG genre with a powerful main character, missing out all the cringe worthy and disappointing stereotypes of “at the last second” or “with 1hp left” which makes the story more personal. The voice actor on the other hand sounds like a robot with no clear tone difference in characters and the pronunciation of trebuchet made me want to skip the whole chapter

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A great listen!

I was on the look out for a book like this, I really enjoy mmorpgs and also love reading works of fiction around the themes

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Great story, okay narrator.

Loved the story. Narrator was okay. Kept saying trebuchet with a hard t, which was jarring.

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great start to a series.

I started listening to this book whilst running a few errands, I ended up listening to the entire story in one go. The LitRPG genre is my current addiction this is one of the better ones. I thoroughly enjoyed the main character and his tactical playstyle. My only complaint would be that the main character seems to be overpowered from almost the beginning of the game.

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